1932-01-14 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1932.

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MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES

THE DRIVING LICENCE

A SHORT STORY.

By "Al Nick"

and got damaged, I think, while my charge. wife was' polishing them.

I obtained my licence last week. I don't boast about it, for when I consider the number of licensed motor car drivers, as suggested by the ever-mounting number plate figures, I know there must be over 24,000 men, women and others in the metropolitan area who are quite as efficient as I am-a few perhaps even more effelent.

Traffic Tests.

I knew she would be sorry if he broke his neck.

my exploits, how both of them. Anyway, I didn't AJ.S. MANUFACTURED

several lessons, and, as Bill had re-driving." paired the car on Saturday after-) noon, we decided to drive to City on me like that," he shouted; and Beach on Sunday so that I could then he took a lot of things I had have another.

intended to say right out of My wife came with us. A man mouth.

"You have no business to cut in

my

The occupants of

IN MANCHESTER.

Anglo-American Firm May Be "All British."

the motor-cycle business of A. J.

NEW CYCLES.

Tempting Motor and

Pedal Models,

Buyers from five European couri tries-Sweden, Germany, Denmark,

PRINCESS NOW AN OWNER-DRIVER.

Model Motor-Car at Glamis Castle.

as I told her of skilfully I had steered, how my make so much noise going into top presence of mind had saved a nastly gear as I did into second. collision with a truck, and how Pasing The Other Car. simple it all was if one only used

I was getting along nicely when intelligence.

Bill told me I had better paas a car License Forthcoming. in front which was dawdling along "That's splendid, William," she at 25 miles an hour, I bought a new car

Bill said to two months;ing, when he was fined £5 for being ago and the upholstery is still as knocked down by a motor car and licence in a day or two."

cried. "You'll be able to get your accelerate, and Helen said to blow good as when I got it. Now that I having his collarbone broken. The

"Pta in my, horn.

Sir William Letts, chairman of Hungary, and Czecho-Slovakia ~~~ I did both successfully.

Princess Elizabeth has joined the "I don't mind and got safely past, pulling then to states that the firm have purchased hibits at Olympia on November 30,"owner-driver."

Willys Overland Crossley have my driving licence I can have young lady who was driving the car no hurry." I said.

Ltd., were critically examining the ex- ranks of motorists and become an the mudguards and bumpers seen which committed the assault was waiting a week or so."

my right side of the road. The They seem very fragile affairs, | fined a similar amount on a similar A week later Bill had me so woll driver of the other car must have from A. J. Stevens and Co. (1914) before the Cycle and Motorcycle

A model motor-car has arrived at Ltd., Wolverhampton, all the good-Show had been open an hour. So it was a draw, and the drilled that when be would order been very inexperienced, for I

Glamis Castle, the power being sup. will and stock-in-trade of their me to put my foot on the brake ten scraped his mudguard, and then he

There are only two foreign ex-plied by a battery operating by a Traffic Department collected the stakes. I bought the car to please times out of a dozen I would do so. ran into me, locking his front bam-motor-car business, and have taken hibitors among the 170, but British foot pedal. Helen, my wife, on the understand-The other two times I might put it pers with my back ones. I allght-over the popular car known as the supremacy in both kinds of machine

The Duke of York was intensely A.3.S." which will be manufactur- is such that all the world wants to interested, and tried the new model ing that Bill would sell his bike, for on the accelerator. I had had ed to tell him what i thought of his

ed at Manchester.

know what we have new to offer before he taught the Princess to Following on the development of each year, and the visitors, if not drive. The Princess soon learned the "Manchester" truck, this Bill explained that the first and

ap- the exhibits, are cosmopolitan. the intricacies of steering, and Dow Among the new features display- spends hours proudly driving round simplest thing to learn was to steer

pears to point to the fact that this the car, and I can without

Anglo-American firm before longed were: нау

the castle grounds. will be "all British.' The Match- Motor-cycles within the 30s, tax as well as boasting that I steered anyone could who had never touch should never allow his wife in the But the greatest humiliation was less Motor Cycle Co. of Woolwich, limit with 500 cc. engines (about 6 ed a wheel and didn't know how to car when he is driving. If ever when Bill told him, referring to me: recently acquired the goodwill of h.p.).

Side-car combination of 5 hp of a side-car outfit in a scattered Before I obtained my licence to turn it to go to the right or the left learn again I won't have it. She "He's only learning, and I suppose Stevens and Co.

within the 50s, tax limit and costing parish. But youth predominated drive a car I thought it was foolish better in fact than the drivers of always knows what you should do you were once a mug yourself." to have to undergo

jonly £51. before you do It, and what you Helen said: "This is my son. If a test by the several approaching cars, for they should not have done after you have he had been driving it would not SCIENTIFIC GASOLINE SAVER.

A three-wheeler with a six-speed saddle and the girl trying the youth in couples, the boy astride the Traffic Department. But I have on all mounted the footpath before done it. She will tell you to look have happened."

gear-box and three speeds and re-pillion or the all-weather qualities several occasions come so bear to coming level with me. They were

Walter G. Critchlow of Wheaton, verse in place of two speeds on the of the side-car. smashing up badly-driven cars that probably learners also; but where-out for the cow a mile away when the other car lined up, and they all I now think the tent should be made as I was calm and collected, they you are looking out for the potholes had a good look at me. However, 11. invented a small mahine, called most famous three-wheeler.

a chain away.

Twin headlampa for motor-cycles, It makes

Britain Supreme. used frightful language, indicating

one aak I'm sure none of them will know! VIX Gas Saver & Humidifier. As there must be many people that they were temperamentally un- with the poet: "What does a man me again, for I can't ever look such The idea of the Vix is to utilise one of which dips and swivels.

The show. was opened by Mr. get married for?" However, this is an ass as I did then.

Boat-shaped side-cars, the new! Randolph Churchill, son of Mr. would like to know from suited to drive a car.

I promised the suction pull from the engine! a digression.

Vinston Churchill. With him on not to report the matter to the caused by the reverse action of the fashion. Thrilling Drive.

Balloon tyres, internal expanding the platform was one of the pioneers A great truck came thundering

Traffic Department, and this seem- pistons, by extending it out through The drive to City Beach was along a narrow strech, and Bill thrilling experience.

aed to satisfy the man who ran into the Humidifier and flexible tube and brakes, invisible mudguards, and

f cycling, the Rev. F. Hastings, of bright colours for bicycles. the The switch-me, especially when I added that I overflow pipe into

radiator,

Eastbourne, who at the age of 94 shouted to me to give it plenty of back road takes nerve and skill to was prepared to pay for any damage drawing thereform the vapour mois-

Apart from the business men, the is claimed to be Britain's oldest My young son, Rill, taught me to road, I gave it the lot.

Luckily negotiate, but

visitors were drive, and I seriously caution par- the fence was rotten

the car behaved done to his car.

nearly all young. cyclist, ture arising from the warm water and I didn't splendidly, and I was as cool as a

in radiator and mixing it in the

Middle age was inspecting the enta against following my example damage the

Sir Harold Bowden, epeating at Car to any great cucumber. in this particular.

Up hill and down hilli Before I was extent.

My wife said she would walk if Humidifier with the proper propor- bicycles and wondering whether it the opening ceremony, said that by half through my first leason, I had we were in was only a quarter of a every moment was our penultimate. unless she walked.

The gate of the paddock at 45 miles an hour, it seemed that I drove, and I said I wouldn't drive tion of air to give the engine im- could get on with the new "baby" organisation and first-class work-

moter-cycles that cost only a few manship the developed a devastating inferiority mile along. It was when Bill ad- On the last hill I ventured to look compromised.

However, I proved performance.

industry reigned guineas more, and there was a grey supreme in Britain and also did a complex, from which I have

I let Bill drive. not dressed a few remarks to me that round. "Feel all right?" I asked been allowed to recover.

Helen asked reguaited by a jet opening in the haired country parson and his wife very large business in all parts of Bi got I first developed the inferiority com- my wife.

A fortnight ago his licence two days after I bought plex. He said he would take the plied, "I always feel safe

"It's splendid," she re-whenever did I think I would be Humidifier. The proportion of air seriously debating the possibilities the world. the car, and I mine seven weeks wheel, and I acquiesced, I have been Bill's driving!"

when able to try for my licence. used is regulated by an adjustable later,

could get it now," I said, "but air valve on the Humidifier and an acquiescing with Bill ever since. She didn't feel so safe coming there's no hurry. Bil's Motor Cycle.

Whan we reached home Helen ask-back: Dad was

Bill can drive auxiliary air inlet. Bill was a motor cycle fiend untied Bill how I had got on.

driving. I didn't as well as I can, and he will take of vapour moisture and air is com- "Askstart off too well, for I didn't know you out any time you want."

posed of hydrogen and oxygen I got the car. His licence had on- dad," he said.

whether to take instructions from

are drawn Into the dorsements for the breach of every I was too modest to tell her in Bill, who knows

"But you haven't had it out by goes, which posable and Impossible traffic re- Bill's presence, but, when we were than Henry Ford,

more about care yourself yet," she said, "and I want motor and utilised as follows:

or from Helen, to learn after you can drive."

The oxygen gulation, including negligent driv- alone. her eyes glowed with pride who thinks she knows

gas entering the more than

So I took the car out "by my-motor combines with the monoxide self." I found that I could learn carbon gas due to the fact that hot more in half an hour relying on my monoxide carbon has an attraction 'for oxygen and absorbs it upon in a

Eke а sponge absorbs month taking instructions from contact, Bill. When I was a mile from water,

The absorption of this home I stopped and went over in oxygen gas by the hot monoxide) my mind what I had learned. I carbon gas renders it moist and couldn't think of anything I didn't unable to crystallize into hard car- know, and that gave me confidence. bon. The hard carbon in the motor

The Engine Stalls.

la formed by the crystallisation of

more severe.

who

an experienced driver how to qualify for their licences, I will tell how I got mine, and they need only copy my example.

Inferiority Complex

PERFECTED

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Bill Drives,

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The amount of vapour

used is

This mixture

I started off again. Something this monoxide carbon gas. The Vix]

Every wrong.

time mixture is drawn in, the monoxide slowed down the engine stall- carbon gas absorbs the oxygen gas, ed. Every corner 1 turned rendering itself moist and unable to it stalled. It stalled at the be crystallized into hard carbon, school gate, and the children were and it is then expelled through the coming out. One bright youngster, exhaust valves by the force of the about nine years old, said: "What explosions in the regular operation will you give me, mister, if I tell of motor. This is the Vix process you what's wrong with your car?" of Carbon Elimination from the

"I'll give you a fiver." I said, Engine. "Dinkum?" he asked eagerly,

You will note that the decom- I reflected that if Bill knew more position of these gases is brought than Henry Ford, this kid might about by the law of chemistry know more than I did, so I said I'd whereby monoxide carbon gas com- give him sixpence.

bines with and absorbs oxygen upon "Make it a deener," he bargained; contact; thus leaving the hydrogen but when a little girl said she'd tell gas in a decomposed state and ready me for nothing he hastened to ac-for explosion. provided your pro- cept the sixpenny offer.

portion of same is in correct pro- "Take off yer handbrake, mister; portion to the fuel mixture, and can't you amell the indiarubber. the heat is intense enough to explode Now aling us the sixpence."

it. If the proportion of moisture

It was sixpence well spent. It being drawn into the motor is cor saved me 19/6; for if I had gone to rect, when the motor gets hot a garage they would have taken the enough you may explode the bydro- engine to plecês and have charged gen gas and receive its powerful me a pound.

explosive benefit as a fuel after the I started out to tell how I got my process of decomposition of the driving licence, but I will have to do water gases takes place. that some other time.

In other words the oxygen gas from the water vapour is utilised for moistaning and causing to be eliminated from your engine the United States Government En-hard carbon formed inside, while gineers have proven in official tests the hydrogen gas, if engine would that many cars lose from 20 per be properly tuned to the Vir, may cent, to 80 per cent of their fuel be utilised for fuel and power, power due to improper vaporisa- The Walter G. Critchlow Vix Hop of the gasoline. The ordinary Vapour Humidifier and Gas Saver carburetter does not vaporise all of being properly installed on any car the gasoline. Raw gasoline is drawn will give one fourth more to double Into the cylinders and instead of the mileage from your gas and oft exploding, birth and produces car it will prevent hard carbon formae boa

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